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Confining. Torturing? The Construction of Torturing Environments in Samos’ Hotspot Camps 23 March 2023 by Julia Manek Gemma Bird Andrea Galán Researching and Exposing Violence Inside Pre-Removal Detention Centres on Mainland Greece 23 February 2023 by Andriani Fili Explaining Immigration Detention in Greece 20 April 2022 Modelling UK Reception on Greece’s Failed Reception System 19 April 2022 Pushbacks In Greece: State Crime, Denial and the Struggle Against Impunity 12 April 2022 Six Years Since Europe’s Deal with Turkey 11 April 2022 Why Europe Must Still Act: The Aegean Islands as a Laboratory for European Border Policies 10 March 2022 Top Blogs this Month 1) ‘3 Mexican Countries’: When All Latin American Migrants Become Mexicans 1 October 2019 2) The IOM and the Trump administration: a turning point in the organization’s history? 9 May 2025 by Sabine Dini Shoshana Fine Antoine Pécoud 3) The duty to rescue refugees and migrants at sea 25 March 2020 4) Crotone court’s judging illegitimate the SOS-Humanity’s seizure. The cooperation with Libyan authorities was not necessary, because what they do cannot be qualified as “rescue”. 28 October 2024 by Chiara Denaro 5) Book Review: After Border Externalization: Migration, Race and Labour in Mauritania by Hassan Ould Moctar 6 June 2025 by Imen El Amouri 6) Pakistan’s deportation policy: Questioning its adherence to non-refoulement 9 June 2025 by Hanna Gjelsvik Berg 7) From Invisibility to Vulnerability: Twenty Years After Menezes and the Ongoing Erasure and Criminalisation of Brazilians in the UK 4 July 2025 by Thi Bogossian 8) Resettlement as a Temporal Border 27 June 2025 by Laura Lambert 9) Sufism in Exile as Border Thinking (Part One) 14 July 2025 by Mujib Abid 10) AI for border control – a ‘geopolitical innovation race’ at the EU’s external borders 11 July 2025 by Stefka Schmid Julia Mahlberg With the support of Connect with us
‘The Ministry of Migration is not a hotel’: The Greek Government’s Admission of Inhuman Detention Conditions 21 July 2025 by Andriani Fili
‘The Ministry of Migration is not a hotel’: The Greek Government’s Admission of Inhuman Detention Conditions 21 July 2025 by Andriani Fili
Breakdown of the Rule of Law in Greece: Violence in detention centres, pushbacks at land and sea, humanitarians on trial 20 May 2024 by Spyros-Vlad Oikonomou Cornelia Ernst
Breakdown of the Rule of Law in Greece: Violence in detention centres, pushbacks at land and sea, humanitarians on trial 20 May 2024 by Spyros-Vlad Oikonomou Cornelia Ernst
Detention Landscapes: Mapping Violence in Immigration Detention in Greece 16 April 2024 by Andriani Fili
Detention Landscapes: Mapping Violence in Immigration Detention in Greece 16 April 2024 by Andriani Fili
Closed. Confining. Torturing? The Construction of Torturing Environments in Samos’ Hotspot Camps 23 March 2023 by Julia Manek Gemma Bird Andrea Galán
Closed. Confining. Torturing? The Construction of Torturing Environments in Samos’ Hotspot Camps 23 March 2023 by Julia Manek Gemma Bird Andrea Galán
Researching and Exposing Violence Inside Pre-Removal Detention Centres on Mainland Greece 23 February 2023 by Andriani Fili
Researching and Exposing Violence Inside Pre-Removal Detention Centres on Mainland Greece 23 February 2023 by Andriani Fili
Why Europe Must Still Act: The Aegean Islands as a Laboratory for European Border Policies 10 March 2022
Why Europe Must Still Act: The Aegean Islands as a Laboratory for European Border Policies 10 March 2022
The IOM and the Trump administration: a turning point in the organization’s history? 9 May 2025 by Sabine Dini Shoshana Fine Antoine Pécoud
The IOM and the Trump administration: a turning point in the organization’s history? 9 May 2025 by Sabine Dini Shoshana Fine Antoine Pécoud
Crotone court’s judging illegitimate the SOS-Humanity’s seizure. The cooperation with Libyan authorities was not necessary, because what they do cannot be qualified as “rescue”. 28 October 2024 by Chiara Denaro
Crotone court’s judging illegitimate the SOS-Humanity’s seizure. The cooperation with Libyan authorities was not necessary, because what they do cannot be qualified as “rescue”. 28 October 2024 by Chiara Denaro
Book Review: After Border Externalization: Migration, Race and Labour in Mauritania by Hassan Ould Moctar 6 June 2025 by Imen El Amouri
Book Review: After Border Externalization: Migration, Race and Labour in Mauritania by Hassan Ould Moctar 6 June 2025 by Imen El Amouri
Pakistan’s deportation policy: Questioning its adherence to non-refoulement 9 June 2025 by Hanna Gjelsvik Berg
Pakistan’s deportation policy: Questioning its adherence to non-refoulement 9 June 2025 by Hanna Gjelsvik Berg
From Invisibility to Vulnerability: Twenty Years After Menezes and the Ongoing Erasure and Criminalisation of Brazilians in the UK 4 July 2025 by Thi Bogossian
From Invisibility to Vulnerability: Twenty Years After Menezes and the Ongoing Erasure and Criminalisation of Brazilians in the UK 4 July 2025 by Thi Bogossian
AI for border control – a ‘geopolitical innovation race’ at the EU’s external borders 11 July 2025 by Stefka Schmid Julia Mahlberg
AI for border control – a ‘geopolitical innovation race’ at the EU’s external borders 11 July 2025 by Stefka Schmid Julia Mahlberg
